Speaker
Description
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton underground liquid scintillator detector currently under commissioning 650m underground in China. JUNO features a rich physics portfolio with neutrinos from many sources including nuclear reactors, supernovae, cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere, the Sun, and the Earth. The primary neutrino target consists of a 35.4 m diameter acrylic sphere filled with liquid scintillator surrounded by 17,612 20" photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and 25,600 3" PMTs providing over 77% photo-coverage. This detector is designed to reach an unprecedented energy resolution of 3% at 1 MeV. Among its primary physics goals is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering, which it will do to about 3 sigma significance in 6 years of data taking, as well as the measurement of 3 oscillation parameters with sub-percent precision. This presentation will provide a broad overview of the status and prospects of the experiment, including updated sensitivity estimates across our physics program.
